Even if you were to do all these things (including have superpowers), you still wouldn't be able to compete with Steam. They have built up too much consumer trust over the years, to the point that people automatically view competitors with suspicion. For competitors to succeed, Steam will have to start being aggressively anti-consumer.
>They have built up too much consumer trust over the years, to the point that people automatically view competitors with suspicion. For competitors to succeed, Steam will have to start being aggressively anti-consumer.
this is often said about "sin goods", you know... like alcohol or drugs or guns..... people need cigarettes so why not ours.".....
we don't have good things on the internet these days. Good things are often taken over, sunset and killed off like geocities of the past. Steam is one-off nice and that is a good thing overall
I don't think it's a bad thing, necessarily. I do think anyone who thinks they can take on Steam at this juncture is fooling themselves, though. Epic did everything the article suggested and it's still not close to the point where a significant fraction of the gaming audience would consciously choose an Epic release over a Steam one.
It is a kind of a bad thing from the perspective of monopolistic practices. As a game developer I'm hoping for a better deal than a 30% cut, but then I see the other stores and there's not much viable choices. Also if steam decides to cut out my genre like it does through algorithms changes, etc, I'm hosed.
Such is the price of a winner take all industry. My hopium is that it changes in the future so that the customers win, and the small guys win before the big platform does.
i get it. 30% is not good, that is daylight robbery and i am against that in principle but they aren't like the rest. apple/google all do the same and they are nowhere customer focussed as steam. steam is the ultimate monopolistic goodguy and unless they do something stupidly bad, they are there.
Sure, if apple/google switch to 5%, steam will have to follow suit but for now, with steam deck for example, they are actually using those profits to help the dev community reach more customers.
Its not the best position but its way better than what apple/google does imo
